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Volume 2 | Issue 3 | Sep – Dec 2016 | Page 1-2| Sandeep Patwardhan, Taral Nagda, Ashok Shyam Authors :Sandeep Patwardhan [1], Taral Nagda [2], Ashok Shyam [1],[3] [1] Sancheti Instittue for orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Pune, India. [2] Institute of Pediatric Orthopedic Disorders Mumbai India. [3] Indian Orthopaedic Research Group, Thane, India Address of Correspondence Dr Ashok […]

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Volume 3 | Issue 1 | Jan-Jun 2017 | Page 1 | Sandeep Patwardhan, Taral Nagda, Ashok Shyam Authors : Sandeep Patwardhan [1], Taral Nagda [2], Ashok Shyam [1], [3]. [1] Sancheti Instittue for orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Pune, India. [2] Institute of Pediatric Orthopedic Disorders Mumbai India. [3] Indian Orthopaedic Research Group, Thane, India Address of […]

IJPO – New Educational Initiatives

Online Journals : the good, the bad and the ugly

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Volume 2 | Issue 3 | Sep – Dec 2016 | Page 1-2| Sandeep Patwardhan, Taral Nagda, Ashok Shyam

Authors :Sandeep Patwardhan [1], Taral Nagda [2], Ashok Shyam [1],[3]

[1] Sancheti Instittue for orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Pune, India.
[2] Institute of Pediatric Orthopedic Disorders Mumbai India.
[3] Indian Orthopaedic Research Group, Thane, India

Address of Correspondence
Dr Ashok Shyam
IORG House, Mantahn Apts, shreesh CHS, Hajuri Road, Thane
Email: dr ashokshyam@gmail.com

IJPO – New Educational Initiatives

International Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics has successfully completed second year of regular publication and we thank our readers, reviewers, authors and editorial board members for their support. Now we are ready to undertake more serious roles in our academic endeavours. There two main focus of IJPO, Research and Education. Role of a journal as an Education portal has been limited since most journals currently focus on the new research and original articles. At IJPO we have kept our focus on the educational front from the very first issue
IJPO has the tradition of including a symposia in every issue and we have completed symposia on certain complex topics like paediatric supracondylar humerus fractures [1], neglected clubfoot [2] and radial club hand [3]. These symposia are written in an easy narrative review patterns and are written by authors that are actively involved in treatment of these diseases. The reviews have practical learning points and are most of the time case based, thus making it easier to read as well as relate. If the readers can relate to the journal and use the practical points in their clinical practice, that would be the greatest testimonial to IJPO. To that end we are trying to use the technology to make the content more user friendly. Videos have been shown to be more effective that text in terms of appeal for the users as well as the visual impact. We are trying to use this concept in three different ways for IJPO. From next issue we will be inviting the article summary in a PowerPoint format which will then be converted to a video to make up a video abstract and posted online. The concept of video abstract is absolutely novel and has just been introduced in our Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports in Dec 2016 [4]. The world is rapidly advancing in terms of its technological tastes. The screens are getting smaller and many access the journals on mobile platform where reading text may be a problem. Video abstracts in PowerPoint format will help the reader get the summary of the paper in a nice video format which they can easily browse and play on the mobile devices. We shall in future ask the authors themselves to record themselves either presenting the PowerPoint or even directly talking to the readers summarising important points in their articles. This will also create a different kind of interaction among the authors and the readers. IJPO has the policy of including the author’s photographs in the article and with inclusion of video abstract with authors speaking to the readers, a new kind of interaction will be forged. Our second attempt will be focussed on including surgical technique videos in all our original articles that describe a surgical technique. We believe this will give readers an insight into the procedure that authors are performing and will help in forming clear perspective of the paper. Also many surgeons have certain tricks and minor improvisations in surgical techniques which will be helpful to many. Our section of surgical techniques will also be based on similar concept where demonstration of surgical techniques by experts will be included. This is specifically useful in learning practical clinical tips as suggested by recent randomised trial [5]. This approach may also help in accelerating the surgical learning curve for new procedures [6]. In addition we will also be partnering with Ortho TV portal for providing more exclusive and dynamic content to our readers. Ortho TV is an upcoming portal of Orthopaedic Research group that will have exclusive video content put online by various organisations and societies. We will also be putting content from IJPO specially the video abstracts on Ortho TV for listing. This will gain us a wider audience and will improve the outreach of the Journal.
We wish to keep IJPO as well as our other journals in forefront of technological developments and intend to use technology to its fullest. This will help us put forth the content is a more effective format as well as cater to the changing taste and times of the coming generation.
We wish IJPO to be an education as well as an Academic Portal. When we say portal, we mean the entire package of web portal and the print version. We solicit the support of the paediatric orthopaedic community to help us in realising this ambitious project. This is a huge task and cannot be done without the help of the paediatric orthopaedic community. We invite suggestions and comments from all of you to create a better Journal which is future ready
Thanks again for supporting IJPO and we look forward to an interactive 2017

References

1. Patwardhan S, Nagda T. Editorial. International Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics July-Sep 2015;1(1):1.
2. Agashe M. Neglected clubfoot: Patho-anatomy and clinical features. International Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics Jan-Apr 2016;1(2):2-5
3. Mehta R. Editorial – Radial Hemimelia Par I. International Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics May-Aug 2016;2(2):8.
4. Shyam A. Video Abstracts – A new approach to Academic Publications. Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports 2016 Nov – Dec 6(4): 1-2.
5. Buch SV, Treschow FP, Svendsen JB, Worm BS. Video- or text-based e-learning when teaching clinical procedures? A randomized controlled trial. Adv Med Educ Pract. 2014 Aug 16;5:257-62.
6. Ibrahim AM, Varban OA, Dimick JB. Novel Uses of Video to Accelerate the Surgical Learning Curve. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2016 Apr;26(4):240-2.

How to Cite this Article: Patwardhan S, Nagda T, Shyam AK. IJPO – New Educational Initiatives. International Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics Sep – Dec 2016;2(3):1-2

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Online Journals : the good, the bad and the ugly

Volume 3 | Issue 1 | Jan-Jun 2017 | Page 1 | Sandeep Patwardhan, Taral Nagda, Ashok Shyam

Authors : Sandeep Patwardhan [1], Taral Nagda [2], Ashok Shyam [1], [3].

[1] Sancheti Instittue for orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Pune, India.
[2] Institute of Pediatric Orthopedic Disorders Mumbai India.
[3] Indian Orthopaedic Research Group, Thane, India

Address of Correspondence
Dr Ashok Shyam
IORG House, Mantahn Apts, shreesh CHS, Hajuri Road, Thane
Email: dr ashokshyam@gmail.com

Online Journals : the good, the bad and the ugly

In last few years, technology has impacted academics and education in a big way. Journals and publications are affected the most with this. The technology has made it easy to host a journal and publish an e-journal. This has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that now even small societies can start their own Journal at low cost and maintain it without crippling cost that is part of agreement with big publishers. It is like academics has been allowed to slip through the tight claws of big publishers. Many established journals were getting too much content and would often reject without review. With new journals coming up the authors have avenues to submit their work and get timely publication of their articles. Many new journals also provided a lot of assistance to authors to write articles and this has again helped new academicians. Again different kind of journals are being started including journals dedicated to reviews and surgical techniques and case reports. This has definitely increased the forum available to young researcher. IJPO too is a product of this technological advancement. At times where only three paediatric orthopaedic journals existed in world, IJPO was started with help of Orthopaedic Research Group and has received great response in last three years.

However, this technological advancement is not without disadvantage which has allowed mushrooming of predatory publishers. The predatory publishers have grown in recent years and have grown bolder. Not a week goes by where we editors do not receive invitation from these journals soliciting articles from us and promising fast and rapid publication within days. We are sure many gullible young academicians are falling prey to these journals. This is an alarming trend and something needs to be done urgently to counter this. One of the most important part of this will be to inform and educate the academic community about these journals and their practices. Bealle’s List was an important list of predatory journals but we can ourselves use simple set of rules to identify these journals. Firstly only predatory journals will solicit your articles and ask for you submit to them. Its only these journals that will promise to publish articles within days of submission. There will hardly be any peer review. Also when you read published articles in these journals, there are lot of spelling error, poor formats, content published as in raw files. Also most of these journals will have weird names that would make them eligible to accept any article in medical field. One of the major hurdles with these journals is that once you have submitted your article to these journals, you cant retract your article. If you wish to retract, you have to pay money to them to retract your own article. This is the ugliest aspect of these publishers and something every researcher will be afraid of. However, if you face such problem, please let us know and we can help you with that

As more and more of us become aware of advantages and disadvantages of online publishing we will be well equipped to deal with these issue and will be able to make best use of these opportunities

References

1. Lew DP, Waldvogel FA. Osteomyelitis. Lancet 2004;364(9431):369-379.
2. Krogstad P. Osteomyelitis. In: Feigin RD, Cherry JD, Demmler-Harrison GD, Kaplan SL, editors. Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Saunders Elsevier; 2009. p. 725-742

How to Cite this Article: Patwardhan S, Nagda T, Shyam AK. Online Journals : the good, the bad and the ugly. International Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics Jan-June 2017;3(1):1.

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